Here's a little slice of the rabbit hole I've fallen into... I have been painting mushrooms and mayapples and mosses for so long...
November 18, 2009
November 13, 2009
Juxtapoz 15th Anniversary Art Auction.
I'm briefly breaking radio silence here to announce that I have a piece in the (now live!) Juxtapoz Art Auction that's showing tomorrow night in LA. There are a lot of amazing artists who have donated pieces to the event, check it out here for auction pieces, interviews, and more.
Postscript: I've been working slavishly away in the studio while being relatively silent on posts over here; I swear by the spines of Ludwig I'll have some peeks soon for you.
October 29, 2009
October 20, 2009
The Last Straw.
12 x 10 gouache on illustration board.
Oh, lawd, my back's been aching...
Click for a close-up mug.
October 15, 2009
suppertime...
8.5 x 11 gouache on illustration board.
...and the livin's easy....
October 12, 2009
little Diedrich.
Gouache on paperclay with seed beads, sequin pins, on a hand-sewn picnic cloth. Figurine is 2 inches wide, 2 inches tall.
"A meat cake
a sheet cake
filled with hammy treats cake..."
... so could be heard the siren-song of little Diedrich, waiting in the woods for an unsuspecting traveler to sample his gaily-frosted, heavenly-delicious confectionaries...
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October 02, 2009
coconut woman.
18 x 16" gouache on illustration board.
"Oh joy! She kommt:
Die Cocoanut woman thumped
Down the path; behind, a swath
of frõhlich Freunden bumped."
—ballad excerpt from The Denglisch Songs of Schlaraffenland, ca. 1855, a manuscript lost to history for nearly five hundred years, recently recovered by the team of A. Bucherbottom
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I will admit that this idea began when sketching around, trying to exorcise an earworm. Needless to say, working on this piece for a while only prolonged its stay in my brain.
September 14, 2009
the highwayman.
18.5 x 16" gouache on illustration board.
I've been meaning to document the work-in-progress for some time now; I managed to keep a camera around for the making of this one. I don't necessarily use any fancy techniques, but I do like watching the pieces grow. Gratuitous progress shots are after the jump.
September 10, 2009
tiny sketch peek.
I'll be working on larger pieces for a while, I think, so as a continuing sign of life I offer a few pages of recent sketchbooks for your enjoyment. Nothing of particular interest, just brain noodlings. (and pigs! I don't know why I've been drawing pigs.)
Monsters!
I have work in a show opening tomorrow here in Charlottesville entitled "Monsters!," which pairs me with the ineffable and talented Allyson Mellburg and Jeremy Taylor, who are both incredible artists and excellent people. I'm really looking forward to it-- hopefully folks in the area will be able to come out!
Allyson Mellburg, Sustainable Habitat
Jeremy Taylor, Purple Neck
PVCC Gallery OpeningPiedmont Virginia Community College
Friday, September 11, 5:00pm
The PVCC Gallery opens its 2009-10 season this weekend with four exhibits, including an outdoor installation.
On view will be "Turning Many Ways" by JMU art professor Greg Stewart, "Monsters" by local artists Allyson Mellberg, Jeremy Taylor and Allison Sommers, "Dream Sequence" by former PVCC art student Sarah Murphy, and "L'espirit de l'escalier" by local artist Shelby Fischer.
The opening reception is FREE and open to the public. The works will be on view through November 4.
V. Earl Dickinson Building at PVCC
501 College Drive
Charlottesville - 434.961.5381
A & J Images from Allyson's flickr stream & Cinders Gallery
